On album number four, Josh Pyke tackles everything

03/07/2013 , 10:45 PM by Dominic Knight

For everyone who's ever recorded songs in their bedrooms and dreamed of hitting the big time, Josh Pyke's musical career is an inspiring one. After years as a stalwart around the Sydney live music scene, playing in a series of promising bands but never quite hitting the big time, he started recording solo music at home under the name Night Hour.

He received an Australia Council grant to put together an EP, and one of the songs he recorded at home, 'Kids Don't Sell Their Hopes So Fast', got considerable airplay on triple j and elsewhere.

From there it wasn't long before he was recording a mini-album, Feeding The Wolves, and his first full studio album, Memories and Dust. ARIA awards and critical acclaim swiftly followed.

Ten years later, Pyke is 35 and something of a veteran in the industry, having released four albums as well as one with his occasional band Basement Birds. Josh he dropped by the studio to play some songs from his latest effort The Beginning and the End of Everything and told me about how nowadays, touring comes as a welcome break from the insanity of being a father of two!

In the clip below, Josh plays his latest single 'Leeward Side' and 'Stories That Get Told', another song from his new album. A video of this performance of 'Leeward Side' is here.

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